Faculty
Program Co-Director Patricia L. Judd will be teaching Global Intellectual Property Enforcement Law. She is an Associate Professor at Washburn University School of Law, where she teaches courses in intellectual property law and real estate law. Her scholarship focuses on adapting international intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement models to a changing global marketplace, looking specifically at how emerging enforcement mechanisms should complement or supplant the current system of intellectual property regulation. Professor Judd joined the Washburn faculty in 2011 after two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brooklyn Law School in New York. Before joining the academy, Professor Judd served as Executive Director, International Copyright Enforcement and Trade Policy for the Association of American Publishers in Washington, D.C., where she advised U.S. and foreign governments regarding intellectual property protection and international trade policy and directed copyright enforcement initiatives worldwide. She graduated from Duke University and Vanderbilt University Law School, and she holds a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Law from George Washington University Law School. See a list of Professor Judd's publications.
Dr. Eddy D. Ventose will co-teach Global Intellectual Property Enforcement Law. Dr. Ventose is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados. He holds an LL.B. (first class honours) from the University of the West Indies ('99), an LL.M. (first class honours) from the University of Cambridge ('00) and a D.Phil. in intellectual property law from the University of Oxford ('05). He received the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice ('04) and the Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School ('08). Before joining UWI as a Lecturer in Law in 2006, Dr. Ventose trained at Slaughter and May in London, the UK's most prestigious law firm, qualifying as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2006. He previously held the position of Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) at Faculty of Law, the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He is also the Head, Intellectual Property Unit; Co-convenor of the Faculty of Law Workshop Series; and the Convenor of the Public Law Discussion Group. He is a WTO consultant on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. He has over 45 publications in leading refereed international journals on aspects of intellectual property law, patent law, medical patent law, human rights law, constitutional law, and administrative law. His first book, Medical Patent Law: The Challenges of Medical Treatment was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2011. His next two books, on administrative law and genetic diagnostic methods, will be published in 2012.
Program Co-Director Lori A. McMillan will be teaching Comparative & International Taxation Law. Professor McMillan earned her B.A.(Hons.) at University of Toronto, and her LL.M. at Queen's University at Kingston. After doing Articles of Clerkship with Goodman and Goodman, and then acting as a Tax Counsel to Arthur Andersen & Co.'s US tax practice in Canada, she earned her LL.M. in International Taxation from NYU, where she was a Tax Law Review scholar and graduate editor. She then returned to practice with Fasken Campbell Godfrey/Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, where she was a tax associate working on transactional planning and tax litigation matters. She has worked extensively in and with foreign legal offices and clients, involved in tax planning for inbound and outbound transactions, both from domestic U.S. and Canadian tax perspectives, as well as from an international and tax treaty stand-point. Also, she has substantially finished her Doctorate in Jurisprudence, from Osgoode Hall Law School, on Nonprofit Taxation in Canada. See a list of Professor McMillan's publications.
Dr. Trevor A. Carmichael will co-teach Comparative & International Taxation Law. Dr. Trevor is a member of the International Bar Association, the Inter-American Bar Association, the International Tax Planning Association, the International Fiscal Association, a former Deputy Secretary General of the International Bar Association, a Life Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in the United Kingdom and a Life Member of the commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association. He serves as a Panel Member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the World Bank in Washington, the Founder Chairman of the Barbados Youth Business Trust, and the Chairman of the United World Colleges Selection Committee for Barbados. A former Visiting Professor of Caribbean Foreign Investment Law to the Florida State University Summer Programme at the University of the West Indies, Dr. Carmichael is a Trustee of Europhil in the United Kingdom and sits on the Legal Affairs and Properties Committee of the International Council of Museums in Paris, France; he is also a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award Association. Dr. Carmichael is the co-author of Land Use Under the Law: A Commentary and
Compilation of Select Legislation in Small Island Developing States; the editor of "Barbados: Thirty Years of Independence;" the author of the book Passport to the Heart: Reflections on Canada Caribbean Relations; the co-author of Commonwealth Caribbean Trusts Law, as well as author of Gully Adventures: A Stream of Barbadian Life. He is the Principal of Chancery Chambers, a Barbados law firm engaged primarily in international business law, environmental law and the law relating to charities.
Angela Robinson will co-teach Comparative & International Taxation Law. Mrs. Robinson was born in Barbados and educated at the University of the West of Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, where she pursued a Bachelor of Laws degree. She received her professional legal training at the Hugh Wooding Law School Trinidad and was subsequently called to the Bar in Barbados in November 2009. She is an associate with Chancery Chambers and has focused her work in the ambit of Commercial and Corporate Law and Corporate/Business organizations. Mrs. Robinson is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries on Canada and the UK and is a Chartered Accountant. She has had experience working in the United States with a multinational accounting firm. In Barbados her experience has also been garnered in the specialised area of the Qualified Foreign Intermediary reporting.
